More About Rousseau
Because of a woman with whom he was infatuated, Rousseau converted to this religion when he was about 16 years old.
What is Catholicism?
Because of the high qualities required of a lawgiver for a state, Rousseau says that only these could give laws to men.
What are gods?
The moral or mental aspect of a free action is related to this body of government.
What is the legislative?
The more distance between the people and the government, the more taxes become this.
What is burdensome?
Rousseau stated that a democratic form of government is more prone to this condition than the other two.
What is poverty?
Even though Rousseau was a product of the Enlightenment, he was influential in this period which followed.
What is Romanticism?
In comparing nations to people Rousseau said that like men, peoples are docile only in their youth; in growing old they become this. (This was a spelling word)
What is incorrigible?
The more the state expands, the more liberty is this.
What is diminished?
Instead of governing subjects to make them happy, despotism makes them this in order to govern them.
What is miserable?
Rousseau says this is lacking in teaching young princes how to rule.
What is obeying?
Rousseau's grandfather was a minister of this persuasion.
What is Calvinism?
Rousseau believed that liberty could be acquired by a people, but it could never be this.
What is recovered?
Rousseau's three classifications of government are democracy, aristocracy and this.
What is monarchy?
When the state dissolves, the abuse of government that follows is given this name.
What is anarchy?
This is the only law that requires unanimous consent.
What is the social pact or contract?
Other than writing and philosophy, Rousseau seemed to have the greatest aptitude for this.
What is music?
The ratio between these two things will properly define the size of a state.
What are land area and population?
Rousseau's best form of aristocracy is this.
What is elective?
The tyrant is one who takes control in opposition to the laws in order to govern according to the laws. The one who places himself above the laws is called this.
What is a despot?
In a true democracy, elections by this would have few drawbacks.
What is by lot?
His parents were not wealthy, but the fact that they were this was important to Rousseau.
What is a citizen?
These two things constitute the greatest good of all, and should be the goal of every system of legislation.
What are liberty and equality?
The form of government of the first societies was this.
What is aristocracy?
Rousseau would expect the smallest states to have this form of government.
What is a democracy?
This from of government would have the greatest propensity to have weak rulers because of how they are put in power.
What is a monarchy?